桑

sāng

s+āng·1st tone

(bound form) mulberry tree

Radical: 木 Strokes: 10

Structure: Top-bottomFrequency: Common

Same radical

机木本林来格树板横极松朱

Same radical

机木本林来格树板横极松朱条权术

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Character Decomposition

桑=叒+木

Etymology

A tree 木 bearing berries 叒

Meanings

(bound form) mulberry tree

sāng

surname Sang

Sāng

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Words with 桑 292 total

(literary) farming and sericulture; agricultural production农桑nóng sāng

Idioms with 桑 50 total Chain

having lived through many changes饱经沧桑bǎo jīng cāng sāng lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes · life's vicissitudes渤澥桑田bó xiè sāng tián lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom) · fig. the transformations of the world沧海桑田cāng hǎi sāng tián